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Every Tank in History — From Mark I (1916) to T-14 Armata (2026)

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From the British Mark I that crawled out of the mist at Flers in 1916 to Russia's T-14 Armata and the M1E3 Abrams prototype of 2026 — 172 tanks from more than 30 countries, and the one problem every tank designer has had to solve: firepower, protection, mobility.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: the machine at Flers
1:51 01 · The Landship (1487–1918)
8:50 02 · The Idea Wars (1919–1939)
13:36 03 · Blitzkrieg (1939–1942)
18:17 04 · Big Cats & Big Numbers (1942–1945)
25:18 05 · The Main Battle Tank (1945–1965)
28:40 06 · Guns, Missiles & The S-Tank (1960–1979)
33:33 07 · Chobham & The Desert (1979–2000)
38:20 08 · The New Tank Nations (1960–2026)
41:26 09 · Arab Armor (1948–2026)
45:00 10 · The Tank Is Dead. Long Live The Tank. (2000–2026)
50:06 Credits

ABOUT THIS VIDEO
• Facts were checked against public sources (Wikipedia infoboxes, official releases, defence press). Disputed figures are flagged as estimates in the narration. Corrections welcome in the comments.
• Archival and museum photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under public-domain or Creative Commons licences; each image is credited on screen (author · licence). A complete attribution list (author, licence, source for every image) is available on request.
• Maps: Natural Earth (public domain); battle lines are simplified.
• Narration is an AI voice (Microsoft Edge neural TTS, “Andrew Multilingual”). Music and sound effects are original and procedurally generated for this video.

#tanks #militaryhistory #documentary
Category
ATLANTIC ROAD
Tags
tanks, tank history, history of the tank
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